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Category: Artist Profiles

Artist Profiles

Artist Profiles: Abby Newton

Angel Romero April 17, 2016 No Comments Abby NewtonAmerican folk musiccelloCeltic music

American musician Abby Newton first brought her cello into the folk music scene in the mid 1970’s as a member of The Putnam County String…

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Artist Profiles: Abboud Abdel Aal

Angel Romero April 17, 2016 No Comments Abboud Abdel'AlArabic musicLebanese musicLebanonviolin

Palestinian musician Abboud Abdel Aal (also spelled Abboud Abdel’Al) was born in 1929. He started his musical career while he was only 7 years old.…

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Artist Profiles: Aaron Bebe Sukura

Angel Romero April 17, 2016 1 Comment Aaron Bebe SukurafluteGhanaGhanaian musicHighlife

Aaron Bebe Sukura is a Ghanaian multi-instrumentalist (harp-lute, thumb-piano, bamboo flute, guitar, xylophone). He recorded Nyong, a solo album devoted to acoustic Highlife from Ghana…

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Artist Profiles: Aaron White

Angel Romero April 17, 2016 No Comments Aaron WhiteAmerican Indian musicfluteNative American music

Aaron White has been entertaining audiences in all four directions of the Earth. A multifaceted artist, he can be found working on a soundtrack or…

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Artist Profiles: Abhijit Pohankar

Angel Romero April 17, 2016 No Comments Abhijit PohankarchilloutIndian classical musicIndian music

Abhijit Pohankar was born June 29, 1975 in Mumbai, India. He bridges Indian classical music with chillout lounge electronic grooves, building a remarkably cross-generational and…

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Artist Profiles: Abdullah Chhadeh

Angel Romero April 17, 2016 No Comments Abdullah ChhadehArabic musicqanunSyrianaworld music

Abdullah Chhadeh is one of the Arab world’s most innovative qanun players. He has re-designed the traditional oriental instrument by the addition of an octave,…

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Artist Profiles: Abdeljalil Kodssi

Angel Romero April 17, 2016 No Comments Abdeljalil KodssiGnawaMlouk el HawaMoroccan musicMoroccoNass Marrakesh

In 1980 Abdeljalil Kodssi recorded his first album with the group Mlouk el Hawa, followed by four more in the following four years. Until that…

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A.C. Reed & the Sparkplugs

Angel Romero April 16, 2016 No Comments A.C. Reedbluesrocksaxophone

A.C. Reed’s expressive tenor saxophone supported the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Muddy Waters, Albert Collins and Buddy Guy. His gruff and tough blues vocals were…

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Artist Profile: Abbi

Angel Romero April 9, 2016 No Comments JazzKenyan musicpopReggaesalsaworld music

Abbi is one of Kenya’s finest Afro-fusionist. With roots in Kenyan people’s traditional instruments and tunes, he fuses contemporary instruments from the world today, such…

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Carole Demesmin

Adolf Alzuphar April 9, 2016 No Comments Haitian musicvodou

She’s now occasionally an old lady singer and a powerful Vodou priestess, or a manbo. She now mostly sits and only sometimes comments instead of…

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